Is there anything better than diving into a great book with your students? I am listing some books that have been recommended by other teachers as well as myself. Teachers will refer to some of these books as core novels/texts. You might use the books for students to read independently or as instructional texts.
Picture Books
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
- The Adventures of Beekle
- Mother
Goose Bruce
- I am a Story
- A Child of Books
- What to do With an Idea
- What to do With a Problem
- Finding Winnie
- How to Train a Train
- Aberdeen
- Choose Your Days
- The Giving Tree
- Rosie Revere, Engineer
- Iggy Peck, Architect
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- The Invisible Boy
- The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles
- The Dark
- The Not So Quiet Library
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Grades 3-4
- Gooney Bird Greene (3rd) series
- The Hundred Dresses (3rd)
- Riding Freedom (3rd)
- Frank Einstein and the Anti-Matter Motor (3rd)
- My Father's Dragon (3rd)
- The Year of Billy Miller (3rd)
- Because of Winn Dixie (3rd)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (3rd)
- Ruby Lu Empress of Everything (3rd)
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (3rd/4th)
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (4th)
- Mr. Popper's Penguins (4th)
- The One and Only Ivan (4th)
- Al Capone Does my Shirts (4th)
- Rules (4th)
- Turtle in Paradise (4th)
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (4th)
- Fish in a Tree (4th)
- El Deafo (4th)
- Bridge to Terabithia (4/5th)
- By the Great Horn Spoon (4/5th)
